Battling Blindness
Ftom: NASA Tech Briefs - Imaging Technology E-News - 05/19/2010

Automated Medical Diagnostics (AMDx), a startup company based in Memphis,
envisions its product helping to preserve the sight of millions of people at
risk of vision loss from diabetic retinopathy. Using Telemedical Retinal
Image Analysis and Diagnosis (TRIAD), a technology recently licensed by the
company from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the
University of Tennessee Health Science Center, patients can quickly be
screened for the disease in their primary care doctor's office and other
remote sites, permitting early detection and referral for diabetic
retinopathy and other retinal diseases.  

The Web-based technology uses a digital camera that takes pictures of the
retina at a primary care physician's office or other remote clinical site.
The patient's medical data and retinal images are sent to a server and
processed through the patented system that quickly sorts through large
databases and finds visually similar images representing equivalent states of
diabetic eye disease. This allows diagnoses to be made in seconds so patients
will know before they leave the office if they have no eye disease or if they
need to follow up with a retinal specialist. Conventional techniques require
a patient to wait several days to receive results. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/get_press_release.cfm?ReleaseNumber=mr20100505-00

Links:
Automated Medical Diagnostics
6415 River Tide Dr.
Memphis, TN  38120-2610
901/685-6804

TRIAD
http://www.triadstudy.org/